Green Grocer has only a single store in Chicago, so the 3,500-square-foot store in Dallas would bring it to a grand total of two. As a comparison, the neighborhood market Walmart is constructing further south on Greenville will be nearly ten times bigger at 34,000 square feet, and will be the chain’s thirty-millionth location. (Sorry, Walmart, but if you’re going to call yourself a “neighborhood market,” we have to take a bit of umbrage. And yes, thirty-millionth is an exaggeration — it’s closer to thirty-nine-hundredth.)

“Then the news came earlier this year” about WalMart (?). Including myself, many I’ve spoken to had no idea. Others had simply “heard a rumor”. The majority of residents I’ve spoken to, in the immediate and surrounding areas, aren’t only not very supportive of the new WalMart market location, but irritated because they felt it was kept too quiet, particularly considering the broad coverage rcvd. by Trader Joes, the LG street improvements and rezoning. I’m irritated too.